Machu Picchu and the Lost City of the Inca

Empires 1450 AD Medieval 🇵🇪 Peru 9,688 views

Perched at 2,430 metres in the Peruvian Andes, Machu Picchu was built by the Inca emperor Pachacuti around 1450 CE and abandoned less than a century later, remaining hidden from the outside world until 1911.

The Inca EmpireThe Inca Empire, known in the Quechua language as Tawantinsuyu (the Four Regions), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America and, at its peak, the largest empire on Earth. Beginning from a small kingdom in the Cusco valley of present-day Peru, the Inca expanded rapidly under a s...

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